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Lifting the Veil on the Use of Big Data News Repositories: A Documentation and Critical Discussion of A Protest Event Analysis 揭开大数据新闻库使用的面纱：抗议事件分析的文献和批判性讨论

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Communication Methods and Measures Pub Date : 2022-09-28 DOI: 10.1080/19312458.2022.2128099

Matthias Hoffmann, Felipe G. Santos, Christina Neumayer, Dan Mercea

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引用次数: 4

Computer Vision and Internet Meme Genealogy: An Evaluation of Image Feature Matching as a Technique for Pattern Detection 计算机视觉与网络模因谱系:图像特征匹配作为模式检测技术的评价

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Communication Methods and Measures Pub Date : 2022-09-22 DOI: 10.1080/19312458.2022.2122423

Cédric Courtois, Thomas Frissen

{"title":"Computer Vision and Internet Meme Genealogy: An Evaluation of Image Feature Matching as a Technique for Pattern Detection","authors":"Cédric Courtois, Thomas Frissen","doi":"10.1080/19312458.2022.2122423","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19312458.2022.2122423","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Internet memes are a fundamental aspect of digital culture. Despite being individual expressions, they vastly transcend the individual level as windows into and vehicles for wide-stretching social, cultural, and political narratives. Empirical research into meme culture is thriving, yet particularly compartmentalized. In the humanities and social sciences, most efforts involve in-depth linguistic and visual analyses of mostly handpicked examples of memes, begging the question on the origins and meanings of those particular expressions. In technical disciplines, such as computer science, efforts are focused on the large-scale identification and classification of meme images, as well as patterns of “viral” spread at scale. This contribution aims to bridge the chasm between depth and scale by introducing a three-step approach suitable for “computational grounded theoretical” studies in which (1) an automated procedure establishes formal links between meme images drawn from a large-scale corpus paving the way for (2) network analysis to infer patterns of relatedness and spread, and (3) practically classifying visually related images in file folders for the purpose of further local, hermeneutic analysis. The procedure is demonstrated and evaluated on two datasets: an artificially constructed, structured dataset and a naturally harvested unstructured dataset. Future horizons and domains of application are discussed.","PeriodicalId":47552,"journal":{"name":"Communication Methods and Measures","volume":"17 1","pages":"17 - 39"},"PeriodicalIF":11.4,"publicationDate":"2022-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43629782","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Promises and Pitfalls of Social Media Data Donations 社交媒体数据捐赠的承诺和陷阱

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Communication Methods and Measures Pub Date : 2022-09-12 DOI: 10.1080/19312458.2022.2109608

Irene I. van Driel, Anastasia Giachanou, J. Pouwels, L. Boeschoten, Ine Beyens, P. Valkenburg

引用次数: 11

Strong-Form Frequentist Testing In Communication Science: Principles, Opportunities, And Challenges 通信科学中的强形式频率测试:原理、机遇和挑战

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Communication Methods and Measures Pub Date : 2022-09-09 DOI: 10.1080/19312458.2022.2086690

L. Coenen, T. Smits

引用次数: 1

Metrics of News Audience Polarization: Same or Different? 新闻受众两极分化的度量:相同还是不同?

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Communication Methods and Measures Pub Date : 2022-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/19312458.2022.2085249

F. Mangold, Michael Scharkow

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An Empirical Investigation of Inadequate Statistical Reporting Practices in Communication Meta-Analyses and Their Consequences 沟通元分析中统计报告实践不足及其后果的实证研究

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Communication Methods and Measures Pub Date : 2022-06-27 DOI: 10.1080/19312458.2022.2088713

Stephanie K Van Stee, Qinghua Yang, Stephen A. Rains

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Correcting Sample Selection Bias of Historical Digital Trace Data: Inverse Probability Weighting (IPW) and Type II Tobit Model 修正历史数字轨迹数据的样本选择偏差：逆概率加权（IPW）和II型Tobit模型

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Communication Methods and Measures Pub Date : 2022-02-18 DOI: 10.1080/19312458.2022.2037537

Chankyung Pak, Kelley Cotter, Kjerstin Thorson

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Inter-annotator Agreement Using the Conversation Analysis Modelling Schema, for Dialogue 使用对话分析建模模式的注释者间协议，用于对话

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Communication Methods and Measures Pub Date : 2022-01-17 DOI: 10.1080/19312458.2021.2020229

Nathan Duran, Steve Battle, Jim E. Smith

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引用次数: 2

Communication Quality Analysis: A user-friendly observational measure of patient-clinician communication. 沟通质量分析:一种便于使用的观察医患沟通的方法。

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Communication Methods and Measures Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.1080/19312458.2022.2099819

Lauren Jodi Van Scoy, Allison M Scott, Michael J Green, Pamela D Witt, Emily Wasserman, Vernon M Chinchilli, Benjamin H Levi

{"title":"Communication Quality Analysis: A user-friendly observational measure of patient-clinician communication.","authors":"Lauren Jodi Van Scoy, Allison M Scott, Michael J Green, Pamela D Witt, Emily Wasserman, Vernon M Chinchilli, Benjamin H Levi","doi":"10.1080/19312458.2022.2099819","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19312458.2022.2099819","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Communication Quality Analysis (CQA) is a rigorous transcript-based coding method for assessing clinical communication quality. We compared the resource-intensive transcript-based version with a streamlined real-time version of the method with respect to feasibility, validity, reliability, and association with traditional measures of communication quality. Simulated conversations between 108 trainees and 12 standardized patients were assessed by 7 coders using the two versions of CQA (transcript and real-time). Participants also completed two traditional communication quality assessment measures. Real-time CQA was feasible and yielded fair to excellent reliability, with some caveats that can be addressed in future work. CQA ratings were moderately correlated with traditional measures of communication quality, suggesting that CQA captures different aspects of communication quality than do traditional measures. Finally, CQA did not exhibit the ceiling effects observed in the traditional measures of communication quality. We conclude that real-time CQA is a user-friendly method for assessing communication quality that has the potential for broad application in training, research, and intervention contexts and may offer improvements to traditional, self-rated communication measures.</p>","PeriodicalId":47552,"journal":{"name":"Communication Methods and Measures","volume":"16 3","pages":"215-235"},"PeriodicalIF":11.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10104441/pdf/nihms-1862196.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9778484","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Three Gaps in Computational Text Analysis Methods for Social Sciences: A Research Agenda 社会科学计算文本分析方法的三个空白:一个研究议程

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Communication Methods and Measures Pub Date : 2021-12-27 DOI: 10.1080/19312458.2021.2015574

C. Baden, Christian Pipal, Martijn Schoonvelde, M. A. van der Velden

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